The Bobbitt Family In America
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[2]John Bobbitt had two brothers who lived to maturity. One was William Bobbitt Junior of Prince George County Virginia, who married Mary Green, a sister of Sarah Green. The other was James Bobbitt of Hanover County Virginia.
The Bobbitt family and the Green family will be found in the Bristol Parish Records of Charles City County and Prince George County Virginia. The records are also in the Counties of Surry and Sussex. The Green family has been remembered by many branches of the Bobbitt family with such names as Green Bobbitt, Greenberry Bobbitt, Green Branch Bobbitt, William Green Bobbitt and Green Washington Bobbitt.
In our collection of early records is a will, written by Robert Green of Surry County Virginia, in that section of Surry County which later became Sussex County. The will was written on the 18th day of September, 1750.
To my cousin, THOMAS BOBBITT, my plantation and land, 150 acres, where I now live, and one negro. To my cousin, Mary Sturdivant .... To my cousin Ann Thruwitts, To my cousin John Mercer .... The remainder of my estate to John Mercer... and to THOMAS BOBBITT .......
All the names in the early records of Virginia and North Carolina are important. Most of the names on the records will be relatives, and will appear again and again in the land deeds.
In March of 1719, John Bobbitt of Chowan, received 600 acres of land by patent as in this deed recorded in Chowan Precinct, in Book 8, page 176.
John Bobbitt to Barraby Melton, on May 1, 1736 for 30 pounds ... for 300 acres on the north side of Maratuck River, adjacent to Zekiah Messee, deceased, on the side of the Occoneckeh Swamp, being part of the tract granted to John Bobbitt by patent for 600 acres, dated on the first day of March 1719.
The original of this patent is in the North Carolina State Archives.
John Bobbitt of Chowan wrote his will in Bertie Precinct on May 7, 1736, in which he mentions all of his children who lived to maturity. The will is in the North Carolina State Archives.
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